Show BEAVER COUNTY flourishing As indicative of the mining revival that has struck the newton district in beaver county utah the management of the beaver butte copper company announces this week the resumption of work on its property lying a mile and a quarter to the south of the sheep rock the sale of which was reported a few days ago to a syndicate of eastern capitalists represented by senator A B lewis of utah says the beaver press to call the beaver butte a copper company is evidently a misnomer which will doubtless be corrected at an early date since it has been found that the main ledge running through the claims owned by the company carries straight gold and silver values and is in fact believed to be the identical ledge on which the sheep rock is mining work ceased on the beaver butte nearly two years ago from lack of capital to pursue the development A shaft was sunk on a vertical vein to a depth of feet and the vein was crosscut at every twenty five feet and it was found that the vein increased in width two feet at every one of these intervals reaching a total width of ten feet at the bottom of the shaft the values remained permanent ranging from 5 to 8 but owing to lack of equipment no mill test were made according to sherman mcgarry superintendent in of the property under whom the present development will be conducted the outcrop shows along the surface of the claim for feet and that in fact it is possible to walk along the ledge directly to the sheep rock mine the plans contemplate drifting on the foot level and the installation of an electric hoist A mill test of fifty tons will probably be put through the five stamp mill of the sheep rock mine in the near future the beaver butte company owns fifteen claims adjoining the sheep rock properties on the south and its stock is held by salt lake and beaver capitalists E C mcgarry and sherman mcgarry of beaver with E M althoff of salt lake are the controlling stockholders wilford robinson 0 F mcshane john murdock of beaver and leon goulet of salt lake are also heavy stockholders under the recent deal with the lewis syndicate for the purchase of the sheep rock options were also taken on the beaver butte the beaver gold the busy bee and other properties the price to be paid being quoted to be a very considerable sum the stockholders of the beaver butte and other companies will hold meetings this months to pass on the action of the directors to confirm or reject the proposed sale the combined acreage under this deal includes nearly 2500 acres lying along a pronounced mineral zone on the western slope of the beaver range this zone which is admittedly fifteen or eighteen miles in length has an indeterminate width which many believe far up into the mountains in the vicinity of mount baldy and even to the eastern slope of the range where the famous annie laurie mine is located experienced prospectors from nevada and other districts of utah are arriving daily and after cursory examination report excellent indications of a mineral zone much wider than already known to exist they find an ideal prospecting country with plenty of wood and water and with few exceptions declare their intentions of spending the summer in the mountains where there is said to be miles of ground still with as good surface showings as the ground already taken mining men without exception are looking confidently for a healthy boom in the newton district this summer beaver county news |